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Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben können, die sehr von der im Lexikon angegebenen abweicht, wo der metaphorische Funke der Dechiffrierfunktion immer einen Sprung voraus ist, wo eine andere, unerwartete Interpretation stets möglich ist.


J.M. Coetzee

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durch die Nacht, durch den Tag.
Reiten, reiten, re...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Einige Leute« – der kleine Mann blickte skeptisch auf die vorbeiströmende Basismaterie – »ins...
TERRY PRATCHETT Die großartigste Fähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes ist vielleicht die, mit Schmerzen fertig zu we...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit...
JULI ZEH Im Jahr 1970 noch protestierten Feministinnen gegen die Vergegenständlichung von Frauen in mondäne...
KATHLEEN BARRY Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, so...
NAVID KERMANI Die älteste Sprache, sagt man, sei das Indogermanische, Indo-europäische, das Sanskrit. Aber es is...
THOMAS MANN Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, d...
THEODOR FONTANE Jeder erzählt in seinem eigenen Kopf eine Geschichte über sich. Ununterbrochen. Die ganze Zeit. Un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. De...
JULI ZEH So sind die Dinge manchmal. Wenn alles am schlimmsten ist, dann wirft der Verstand alles in einen Pa...
RICHARD BACHMAN Bei uns wird nur selten eine Mariage geschlossen, wo nicht wenigstens ein halb Dutzend der Gäste - ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Der Kreis des Blutes Vollendung findet,
Der Stein der Weisen die Ewigkeit bindet.
Im Kleid...
KERSTIN GIER Wir haben Ärzte, Rechtsanwälte und extrem belesene Leute, die einige der größten Fans der Serie ...
CHASE MASTERSON The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Über des Propheten Gebein ist jedes Staubkorn
ein Pfeiler von Licht,
Aufrecht von der Ku...
AL-FAITURI Jeder von uns hat zweierlei Geist. Einen wachen Geist und einen schlafenden Geist. Unser wacher Geis...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Ac...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Der Wahnsinn ist nur die Kehrseite der Macht, beide Ungeheuer wurden erschaffen, um einander zu näh...
FAWZI MELLAH Nachahmung ist die aufrichtigste Form der Schmeichelei.
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DAVID RAMIRER Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz,
Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!
Wer besitzt, der ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Das Leben geht weiter.
Manchmal fragte ich mich, ob diese Tatsache nicht das Grausamste an unse...
MAX RHODE Rätselhafterweise ist Schriftsteller trotzdem der schönste Beruf der Welt. Mehr als das. Schriftst...
JULI ZEH Terror - manchmal offen ausgedrückt, doch meistens stillschweigend erkannt - schleicht sich in die ...
KATHLEEN BARRY Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre e...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Das gute Buch macht den Menschen einzigartig und befreit ihm aus der Menge. Es gibt ihm die Möglich...
DAVID GROSSMAN Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht...
RICHARD VON WEIZSäCKER Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Der Schmerz, den wir alle über diesen Verlust empfinden, erinnert mich, erinnert uns, daran, dass, ...
J.K. ROWLING The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
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STAR TREK Ich habe die komplexen Probleme einer Single-Existenz gegen die Probleme zweier Personen getauscht. ...
CATHRIN SUMFLETH Gern hätte er Europa jetzt aus der internationalen Weltraumstation ISS gesehen. Wo sonst die feinen...
MARC ELSBERG Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke...
RENE AUBERJONOIS Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendw...
DAVID GRAY Der Autor muß eine Fülle von Varitionen über das ausgewählte Thema bieten, die Entscheidungsmög...
CARLOS FUENTES einige gitarren, ein klavier, mikrophone von der decke, kleine schaumstoffpyramiden an den wänden. ...
DAVID RAMIRER Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, da�...
ARNO SCHMIDT Zu einem wahrhaften Menschen gehören viele Götter, und er verschließt in seinem Herzen alle die M...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [...
JULI ZEH Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem kla...
ERICH KäSTNER Hoffnung ist was sehr Widerspenstiges. Eine Sucht, die man bekämpfen muss.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK In der Fabrik hing oben am Giebel, der am höchsten in den Himmel und am tiefsten in den Hof schaute...
HERTA MüLLER Worte sind die blassen Schatten vergessener Namen. Und wie Namen Macht innewohnt, wohnt auch Worten ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Der Deutsche fährt nicht wie andere Menschen. Er fährt, um recht zu haben.
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YASUSHI INOUE Am Anfang merkt man noch nicht viel davon. Man hat eines Tages keine Lust mehr irgendetwas zu tun. N...
MICHAEL ENDE Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Der Spirit der Mitarbeiter ist wichtiger als das Controlling der Corporate Monkeys.
CARSTEN K. RATH Verliebtheiten werden maßlos überschätzt. Verliebtheiten bestehen zu fünfundvierzig Prozent aus ...
PETER HøEG Jahrtausende lang haben die Menschen nicht herausgefunden, was es mit der Liebe auf sich hat. Wie vi...
STEPHENIE MEYER Jahrtausende lang haben die Menschen nicht herausgefunden, was es mit der Liebe auf sich hat. Wie vi...
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CHRISTOPH MARZI Das Web 2.0 bedeutet vor allem, dass die soziale Reichweite des Einzelnen größer ist als die Reich...
SASCHA LOBO Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Wenn die Menschen wüssten, was der Tod ist, dann hätten sie keine Angst mehr vor ihm.
MICHAEL ENDE Ich selbst spiele nie Billard, [...],aber ich weiß, dass man den Ball hoch oder tief, rechts oder l...
ROBERT MUSIL Die Geheimnisse der Sklaverei werden genauso totgeschwiegen wie die der Inquisition.
HARRIET ANN JACOBS Wenn von zwei ausschließlichen Varianten eine die Katastrophe, die andere das Warten auf die Katast...
JULI ZEH Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Her...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was früher die großen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, de...
JULI ZEH Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß...
PAULINE DEBOK So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophr...
HERMANN HESSE Und wenn ich morgens auf meinem aus dem georgischen Dorf Besch-taschen stammenden Gebetsteppich knie...
JOSEF WINKLER Der feste Beruf auf Lebenszeit [...] ist ein Produkt der Industrialisierung.
SASCHA LOBO Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. I...
JENNIFER NIVEN Thanatos, der alles wusste, stieg in Erwartung des Kommenden die Niederenslinger Hügel hinauf zum P...
HELMUT KRAUSSER An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nach...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Irgendwo war mir ein Rest von Glauben an den freien Willen geblieben, aber an diesem Morgen war ich ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie ve...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Ich stellte mir seine Gedanken als einen schnellen, schmalen Wasserstrom vor, der sich durch die Fug...
ROBERT HARRIS Das Bild vom Wirtschaftsgeschehen als einem Wettlauf oder Wettkampf ist in seinen Details etwas vers...
J.M. COETZEE Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger.,...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nein, fair ist das nicht, aber dass die Erde sich wie die Hölle anfühlt, liegt an unserer Erwartun...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Was es ist

Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Lieb...
ERICH FRIED Der Mensch ist taub und blind gegen die Welt, aber er spürt es wie Rheuma, wenn ihn etwas am Schick...
JULI ZEH Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunklen Laub die Goldorangen glühn.
MAEVE BINCHY Wie einer, der auf fremden Meeren fuhr,
so bin ich bei den ewig Einheimischen;
die vollen ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste H...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase
Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.
WILHELM BUSCH Verstehst du, Frauen sind wie Feuer, wie Flammen. Manche Frauen sind wie Kerzen, hell und freundlich...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Die Gesamtheit dieser Produktionsverhältnisse bildet die ökonomische Struktur der Gesellschaft, di...
KARL MARX Ich liebe die großen Verachtenden, weil sie die großen Verehrenden sind und Pfeile der Sehnsucht n...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Siehst Du, Momo", sagte er, "es ist so: Manchmal hat man eine sehr lange Straße vor sich. Man denkt...
MICHAEL ENDE Wenn ich nur ein Telephon habe, der Wald 
wird sich finden! Ohne Telephon kann man nur 
...
KARL KRAUS Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, w...
LUDWIG VON MISES in der Fußgängerzone kam Wind auf wie immer Wind aufkommt bei der Suche nach jenem richtigen Ort d...
MARION POSCHMANN Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon sch...
KURT TUCHOLSKY Das Ufer des Flusses und der vielen glitzernden Bächlein, die ihm auf allerlei Umwegen zuströmten,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE [W]elcher Verdienst wäre größer als der Mut und das Vertrauen, ja auch die Nächstenliebe, die im...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Erlaube," fuhr Meister Abraham fort, "erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergle...
E.T.A. HOFFMANN Auf dem allerersten Foto, das von mir geschossen wurde, liege ich auf der Säuglingsstation, eingewi...
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J.M. MCDERMOTT When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tin...
J.M. BARRIE It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is...
J.M. BARRIE I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my sha...
J.M. BARRIE The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were ...
J.M. BARRIE America's over. Get out while you still can.
J.M. PORUP The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his h...
J.M. BARRIE The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. BARRIE I've heard some stupid questions in my life. Usually they come in clusters: Why do you have that ...
J.M. DARHOWER A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are ...
J.M. BARRIE Like Dinah says, “We can only play the cards we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t do any good to wish ...
J.M. SULLIVAN There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
J.M. BARRIE We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we ope...
J.M. HARRISON The Heart of what you are is not your body or your thoughts but pure Consciousness itself.
J.M. HARRISON You have enemies the moment you have success. Our job is finding a way to do business with them. Eve...
J.M. LAWLER I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was...
J.M. RICHARDS It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of ...
J.M. RICHARDS I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Bra...
J.M. RICHARDS Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’r...
J.M. RICHARDS When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bra...
J.M. RICHARDS I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is ...
J.M. RICHARDS I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,...
J.M. RICHARDS As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro...
J.M. RICHARDS Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
J.M. RICHARDS You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how st...
J.M. DARHOWER Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats ...
J.M. RICHARDS Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J.M. SYNGE You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
J.M. BARRIE Boy, why are you crying?
J.M. BARRIE It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
J.M. BARRIE He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
J.M. BARRIE For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange...
J.M. BARRIE She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was li...
J.M. BARRIE If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colo...
J.M. BARRIE There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was...
J.M. BARRIE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead
young mothers, returned to see...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.
J.M. BARRIE It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ...
J.M. BARRIE When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo...
J.M. BARRIE Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth...
J.M. BARRIE It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
J.M. BARRIE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BARRIE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh...
J.M. BARRIE You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
J.M. BARRIE We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
J.M. BARRIE Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
J.M. BARRIE he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.
J.M. BARRIE Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you k...
J.M. BARRIE All children, except one, grow up
J.M. BARRIE For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether yo...
J.M. BARRIE No fue el dolor, sino lo in­jus­to del asun­to, lo que aton­tó a Peter. Lo dejó im­po­ten­t...
J.M. BARRIE Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
J.M. BARRIE I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS